Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] PCI: dwc: Perform host_init() before registering msi

[Lorenzo Pieralisi]

[+Vidya]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 02:23:14PM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Tue 24 Aug 13:29 PDT 2021, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 01:15:49PM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > > On Tue 24 Aug 12:05 PDT 2021, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 08:49:57AM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > > > > On the Qualcomm sc8180x platform the bootloader does something related
> > > > > to PCI that leaves a pending "msi" interrupt, which with the current
> > > > > ordering often fires before init has a chance to enable the clocks that
> > > > > are necessary for the interrupt handler to access the hardware.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Move the host_init() call before the registration of the "msi" interrupt
> > > > > handler to ensure the host driver has a chance to enable the clocks.
> > > > 
> > > > Did you audit other drivers for similar issues?  If they do, we should
> > > > fix them all at once.
> > > 
> > > I only looked at the DesignWware drivers, in an attempt to find any
> > > issues the proposed reordering.
> > > 
> > > The set of bugs causes by drivers registering interrupts before critical
> > > resources tends to be rather visible and I don't know if there's much
> > > value in speculatively "fixing" drivers.
> > > 
> > > E.g. a quick look through the drivers I see a similar pattern in
> > > pci-tegra.c, but it's unlikely that they have the similar problem in
> > > practice and I have no way to validate that a change to the order would
> > > have a positive effect - or any side effects.
> > > 
> > > Or am I misunderstanding your request?
> > 
> > That is exactly my request.
> 
> Okay.
> 
> > I'm not sure if the potential issue you
> > noticed in pci-tegra.c is similar to the one I mentioned here:
> > 
> >   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20210624224040.GA3567297@bjorn-Precision-5520/
> > 
> 
> As I still have the tegra driver open, I share your concern about the
> use of potentially uninitialized variables.
> 
> The problem I was concerned about was however the same as in my patch
> and the rockchip one, that if the tegra hardware isn't clocked the
> pm_runtime_get_sync() (which would turn on power and clock) happens
> after setting up the msi chain handler...
> 
> > but I am actually in favor of speculatively fixing drivers even though
> > they're hard to test.  Code like this tends to get copied to other
> > places, and fixing several drivers sometimes exposes opportunities for
> > refactoring and sharing code.
> > 
> 
> Looking through the other cases mentioned in your reply above certainly
> gives a feeling that this problem has been inherited from driver to
> driver...
> 
> I've added a ticket to my backlog to take a deeper look at this.

Vidya, can you look into this please ? In the meantime I would merge
this series.

Thanks,
Lorenzo

> 
> Regards,
> Bjorn